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Alabama's unemployment rate dipped to 6.9 percent in April as more people found restored faith in the job market and started looking for work again, state officials said Friday. Full story
Alabama's unemployment rate dipped to 6.9 percent in April as more people found restored faith in the job market and started looking for work again, state officials said Friday. Full story
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Alabama's bankrupt Jefferson County has reached a deal with creditors JPMorgan Chase and Bayerische Landesbank covering $105 million of general obligation warrants, county officials said on Monday. Full story
An automotive company is investing $12 million in an expansion that will lead to about 100 new jobs in southeast Alabama. Full story
The water dispute between Alabama, Florida and Georgia is provoking hardball politics in Congress, where Georgia lawmakers derailed a proposal that could restrict metro Atlanta's water supply. Full story
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Alabama's Jefferson County expects to file a "largely consensual" plan by late June to exit its record $4.2 billion municipal bankruptcy, a lawyer for the county said on Thursday. Full story
Alabama man spends two days underneath a bridge in twisted wreckage after a truck crash. WAFF's Jack Madison reports.
Explosions and fires tore through two barges Thursday night in Mobile, Alabama, leaving three people in critical condition with burns. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.
Two men describe the several explosions that occurred on Alabama's Mobile River, saying “it was just pandemonium.”
Two fuel barges docked in Mobile, Ala., exploded Wednesday night, leaving three people in critical condition with burn-related in juries.
MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts talks with Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Alabama, and Dianne Braddock, whose sister was killed in a church bombing, about efforts to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the four black girls killed in that 1963 bombing.
"Almost 50 years since their deaths, the House plans to vote Wednesday to award the Congressional Gold Medal to four young girls killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., a seminal moment in the civil rights movement," the Washington Post reports. Rep. Terri S
FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2013 file photo the cruise ship Carnival Triumph is towed into Mobile Bay near Dauphin Island, Ala. The Triumph, which has been docked in Alabama since an engine room fire left it disabled for days in the Gulf of Mexico, broke away from its mooring in a Mobile, Ala. shipyard
Sarah Collins Rudolph stands in front of an artists rendering of the five girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Forestdale, Alabama, April 12, 2013. Left to right in the image: Denise McNair, Sarah Collins Rudolph, Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley. Rudolph, who surviv
Sarah Collins Rudolph stands beside her suburban home north of Birmingham, in Forestdale, Alabama. Rudolph, who survived a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed her sister and three other black girls in one of most heinous crimes of the civil rights era, said she will not accept a medal that Cong
William Moody, known as WWE Manager Paul Bearer, is pictured in this undated handout photo courtesy of the WWE. Moody passed away in his hometown of Mobile, Alabama, on March 5, 2013. He was 58.
